Tuberculosis, I believe everyone has heard of, in ancient or modern novels, many works have also recorded this kind of disease.
In particular, Lu Xun's Hua Xiaotuo, even after eating the "ancestral secret recipe" of human blood steamed buns, still failed to survive.
Tuberculosis, on the other hand, is actually called "tuberculosis" by medicine.
Tuberculosis, a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, this bacteria can reside in various parts of the human body (except nails and hair), the most common is the lungs, so tuberculosis is mostly tuberculosis.
In the past, lung junction accounting was a disease that could not be treated, but with the continuous development of medicine, tuberculosis now has a complete diagnosis and treatment plan.
But the problem is that tuberculosis has not withdrawn from the stage of history, in previous reports, this disease, which was once known as the "white plague", seems to have a great tendency to "make a comeback".
According to the data, the number of people suffering from tuberculosis worldwide is about 13 million, with 9.6 million new people adding each year, and in 2014, 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis worldwide, surpassing AIDS for the first time.
For diabetics, it is more necessary to be vigilant against tuberculosis
If sugar friends do not have ideal blood sugar control and the body's immunity is suppressed, they will be prone to tuberculosis.
The study found that the prevalence of tuberculosis in diabetic patients was 2-4 times higher in non-diabetic patients, and the prevalence of tuberculosis with poor glycemic control was 3 times higher than that in well-controlled people.
Therefore, once sugar friends develop tuberculosis, what do you need to pay attention to in treatment?
1. Prolong the treatment period of tuberculosis
Generally speaking, the treatment time of tuberculosis is about half a year, and patients continue to use drugs to control tuberculosis, and after calcification occurs at the site of tuberculosis, the impact of tuberculosis on the body can be effectively avoided.
However, due to the high blood glucose level of diabetic patients, it may lead to a small number of tuberculosis bacteria reproducing in large numbers, so there is a great possibility of recurrence, coupled with the relatively poor immunity of diabetic patients.
For patients with diabetes mellitus with tuberculosis, it is necessary to extend the treatment time of tuberculosis in order to solve the problem of tuberculosis infection as thoroughly as possible.
2. Do not blindly use antituberculosis drugs
Antituberculosis drugs can be described as targeted treatments for tuberculosis, but diabetes mostly interferes with antituberculous drugs.
Diabetes can continue to cause blood sugar to rise, if blood glucose levels are not well controlled, then too high blood sugar levels will play a role in promoting the reproduction of tuberculosis bacteria, so that even if antituberculosis drugs are used, tuberculosis cannot be effectively treated.
Therefore, during this period, patients should not blindly use antituberculosis drugs, otherwise they are likely to cause damage to the body due to the side effects of antituberculosis drugs.
3. Use insulin
For the control of blood glucose in patients with diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis, it is best to use insulin to lower blood sugar.
Because the hypoglycemic drug itself will have certain side effects, but the side effects of antituberculosis drugs are already obvious, at this time, if the patient continues to choose to take hypoglycemic drugs, it will only increase the side effects of the drug on the body.
Compared with hypoglycemic drugs, insulin does not cause any negative impact on the body, and patients are best to choose insulin to control their blood sugar so as not to increase the burden on the body.
4. Control and treat side effects
Because the treatment of patients with diabetes and tuberculosis takes a long time, and the physical tolerance of diabetic patients is relatively poor, the side effects will be more obvious, such as some patients will have obvious gastrointestinal discomfort symptoms after taking antituberculosis drugs.
Therefore, after a period of antituberculosis therapy, patients should also treat the side effects that occur, for which it is generally possible to choose to use drugs with protective gastrointestinal function to alleviate the side effects.
In addition, it is worth noting that even if the side effects of antituberculosis drugs are large, patients should not stop the drug or reduce the dose without authorization, otherwise it will greatly increase the difficulty of controlling tuberculosis.
5. Surgical treatment
Since tuberculosis and diabetes are likely to affect each other at the same time, the condition of tuberculosis is often more serious, and it is impossible to guarantee that the disease can be controlled in a timely and effective manner.
For the treatment of diabetes mellitus with tuberculosis, in addition to taking medication, patients may also choose to treat them surgically.
Surgical removal of tuberculosis infected tissue can not only effectively control the infection, but also play a certain role in promoting diabetes.